During the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session, state senators and delegates cast key votes on critical issues impacting human life, dignity, and the common good.
The Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy agency representing Virginia’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses, released a report on the session April 24.
The report contains three charts: A Senate chart showing how your senator voted; a House chart showing how your delegate voted; and a House Health and Human Services Committee chart with two key committee votes. This was included to report how the committee’s 22 delegates voted on two matters of top concern that did not receive House floor votes.
Also available are descriptions of legislation featured in the charts, organized into three categories: Life and Liberty, Families and Children, and Social and Economic Concerns. An Index of Legislation provides more detail than what the brief bill descriptions provide.
Examples from the report include:
The VCC opposed Senate and House bills that sought to shield abortion providers in Virginia from prosecution for breaking other states’ laws on abortion — enabling them, for example, to prescribe and mail chemical abortion drugs to women and girls in other states even if doing so would violate their laws. These bills passed both chambers. Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed them. Veto sustained during Reconvened Session April 17.
For the fifth time in six years, VCC-opposed legislation to legalize assisted suicide was introduced. It passed the Senate and passed a House committee. However, it did not proceed to a House floor vote, and another House committee ultimately decided to postpone its further consideration until 2025.
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